Maureen Connor

1996
The Telematic Room, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
The Visible and the Invisible: Representing the Body in Contemporary Art and Society,
Institute for International Visual Arts, University College, London, England
Feed and Greed, Museum für Angewandekunst, Vienna, Austria
Sexual Politics, The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America, (screening of film by Michael Blackwood),
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Body Found and Lost: Maureen Connor and Valie Export, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany

1995
Pulp Fashion, Dieu Donne Gallery and Studio, New York, NY
Madeleines, Apex Gallery, New York, NY
Configura 2, Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany
Hard Comforts, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Heresies, curated by Jorge Luis Marzo, CAAM, Canary Islands, Spain
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's, Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Newhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
Sculpture as Objects: 1915-1995, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
It's How You Play the Game, EXIT ART/First World, New York, NY

1994
In the Lineage of Eva Hesse, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Home Video Redefined: Media, Sculpture, and Domesticity, curated by Dara Myers-Kingsley,
Center of Contemporary Art, Miami,
Members Only, Carlos Poy Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

1993-94
Disorderley Conduct, organized by Nina Felshin and Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W., New York, NY,
traveling to Hobart/William Smith College, Geneva, NY; Carlton College, Northfield, MN
MENSCHENWELT (Interieur), curated by Dr. Martin Hentschel, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany;
traveling to Castello di Rivara, Turin , Italy; Norwich Gallery, England; Wurrttembergerisher
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

1993
ADressing the Body, curated by Jeanne Meyers, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, curated by Nina Felshin; travelling to
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Viginia Beach Center of the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA;
University Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of Art,
University of Newfoundland, NS; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; The Gallery, Stratford, ON;
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA; Selby Gallery,
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
The Rag Trade, curated by Saul Ostrow, The Inter Art Center, New York, NY
New Moderns, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington D.C.
Multimediale, Zentrum für Kunst und Mediantechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gallery Artists and Friends, Germans van Eck, New York, NY
Discursive Dress, curated by Alison Ferris John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1993 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;
travelling to The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Fall from Fashion, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
'1920' Contemporary Women Artists, EXIT ART/The First World, New York, NY
I Am the Ennunciator, curated by Christian Leigh, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

1992
Much Sense: Erotics and Life, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, AB
A Marked Difference, curated by Saul Ostrow and Peer Veneman, Maatschappij Art et Amitcitae,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Autoerotic Object, curated by Juli Carson, Voorhees Gallery, Hunter College, NY
Material Revisions, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Contemporary Surfaces, curated by Rick Ward, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY
The Curio Shop, curated by Saul Ostrow, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Ecstacy, Dooley Le Cappellaine, New York, NY
The Rectangled Bank, curated by Frank Gillette, EM Donahue, New York, NY
Sense and Sensibility, curated by Nancy Princenthal, Solo Gallery, New York, NY
Speak, curated by Jin Lee and Lynn Brown, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991
Physical Relief, curated by Susan Edwards, Hunter College Art Gallery, NY, NY
The Value Show, curated by Cathleen Cullen and Robert Mahoney,
Dooley Le Capellaine, New York, NY
Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Burning In Hell, curated by Nancy Spero, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
The Lick of the Eye, curated by David Pagel, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA,CA
When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, curated by Janine Cirincione,
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
New Generations: New York, curated by Elaine King, Carnegie Melon Art Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA
After Duchamp, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France

1990
Fragments, Parts, Wholes, the Body and Culture, curated by Saul Ostrow, White Columns Gallery, New York
Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Body Once Removed, Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY
Tell It Like It Is, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY

1988
Body Fragments, curated by Robert Edleman, Shea and Becker Gallery, New York, NY
The Other New York, Alfred Kren Gallery, Köln, West Germany
Nomadic Visions, Southern Massachusetts University Gallery, North Dartmouth, MA

HONORS AND AWARDS

2011
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship

2010
Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship

2009
First Prize, Proposal for the Peace Pentagon

2000
Artist in Residence: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts

NYSCA Media Project Grant for Personnel at the Queens Museum of Art

NYSCA Finishing Funds Award for Growing Older at QMA

1999
NYFA Individual Artist's Fellowship

1995-6
NEA Fellowship

1995
Guggenheim Fellowship

1991-2003
PSC CUNY Grants, Research Foundation, City University of New York

1988
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Visiting Artist

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters:
Connor, Maureen, (Con)testing Resources, in Making Art History: a Changing Discipline and its Institutions,
edited by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, 245-263, Routledge, 2007

Essays:
Connor, Maureen, New Work(place), in New Work: Art From the Workers of the New Museum,
ed. by Lena Imamura, 27-34, Stanton Chapter, 2008
Connor, Maureen, Working Notes: A Conversation with Katie Deepwell, Art Journal, Vol. 6, No 2, pp.33-43
Connor, Maureen, SOS Peace Pentagon, Where We Are Now, Spring 2010, edited by Marisa Jahn.
Connor, Maureen, Aftermaths and Personnel, A Conversation Between Maureen Connor and Marisa Jahn, Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices, edited by Marisa Jahn, YYZ Books and REV-. 2010

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Album, Arts Magazine, September 1982.
Allen, Jonathan. The Multiple Self, AtlAntica, Fall 1995.
Alloway, Lawrence. The Sculpture of Maureen Connor. Arts Magazine, September 1982.
Anker, Suzanne. The Genetics of Oedipus, Tema Celeste, Winter 1993, no. 3989, pp. 42-6.
Bonami, Francesco. Maureen Connor, Flash Art, vol. 165, Summer 1992.
Brenson, Michael. Art 8 Artists 'Between Drawing and Sculpture, The New York Times, Dec. 20,'85
Review. The New York Times, December 26, 1986.
Carrier, David. Maureen Connor. Tema Celeste, Summer 1992.
Cohen, Ronny. Energism: An Attitude, Artforum, September 1980.
Cotter, Holland. Maureen Connor 'Discreet Objects, The New York Times, December 20, 1995.
Cullen, Kathleen, Interview with Maureen Connor, Journal of Art, Winter 1994.
Drucker, Johanna, Le Corps D'À Cote, Les Cahiers du Musée, National d'art Moderne, Spring, 1995.
Edelman, Robert. Maureen Connor, Art Press, March 1995.
Felshin, Nina. Women's Work: A Lineage 1966-94. The Art Journal, Spring 1995.
Frank, Peter. Maureen Connor, Art News, Summer 1978.
Glueck, Grace. Maureen Connor: Love (at first) Site, The New York Times, January 23, 1998
Harrison, Helen. Ordinary Made Into the Real Thing, The New York Times, November 10, 1985.
Sculptors Pose a Challenge, The New York Times, March 7, 1982.
Hauffen, Michael. Maureen Connor: Narrow Escape, Kunstforum, June- August 1997
Heartney, Eleanor. Review. Art News, April 1984.
Hess, Elizabeth. Evidence of the Body, The Village Voice, January 10, 1995.
S=Biennial: Up Against the Wall, The Village Voice, March 16, 1993.
Indiana, Gary. Formal Wares, The Village Voice, March 25, 1986.
Johnson, Ken. Review: Seductions and Games: Recent Video Installations by Maureen Connor,
The New York Times, January 19, 2001
Jones, Amelia. 'Presence' and Calculated Absence, Tema Celeste, Winter 1993, pp38-41.
PERFORMING BODIES, California University Press, Berkeley, 1998
Kimmelman, Michael. Sculptors Make A Case for Expressionism, The New York Times, August 19, 1988.
Klein, Ellen Lee. Review: Maureen Connor, Arts Magazine, March 1984.
Group Show at Aquavella, Arts Magazine, December 1994.
Lajer-Burkharth, Ewa. Real Bodies: Video in the 1990s, Art History, Spring, 1997
Levin, Kim. Voice Choices: Maureen Connor, 'Love (at first) Site', The Village Voice , January 28-February 3, 1998
Voice Choices: Seduction and Games : Recent Video Installations by Maureen Connor,
The Village Voice, January 24- 30, 2001
Disorderly Conduct, The Village Voice, July 1993.
Art Pick, The Village Voice, February 1984.
Lubell, Ellen. Review. Arts Magazine, January 1976.
Malarcher, Patricia. Maureen Connor: Shaping a Response to the Past, Fiber Arts, Jul-Aug. '82
Masheck, Joseph. Constructive Issues in Relief, Artforum, November 1982.
MODERNITIES: Art Matters in the Present, Penn State Press, PA, 1993
McEvilley, Thomas. Reviews: The Houston Festival, The Visual Arts Section, Artforum.
Means, Amanda. Shorts: Maureen Connor, Bomb, Fall 1989.
Melrod, George. Lip Schtick (Janine Antoni, Maureen Connor, Rachel Lachowicz), Vogue, June '93
Review: New York, Art In America, September 1992.
Tell It Like It Is, Sculpture, May 1990.
Morgan, Margaret. From Dada to Mama: Feminism, the Readimade and Contemporary Practice, Binocular, 1994.
Nevins, Deborah. Maureen Connor, Art Magazine, September 1980.
Environment As Memory: An Interview with Donna Dennis and Maureen Connor, Heresies 11, Summer 1981.
The New Yorker. Goings On About Town, January 30, 1995.
Perreault, John. Clothes Call, The SoHo News, December 23, 1980.
Princenthal, Nancy. Maureen Connor at the Alternative Museum and P.P.O.W., Art In America, April 1995.
Raap, Jurgen. The Other New York,Kunstforum, June-July 1988.
Raven, Arlene. March On-'1920' at Exit Art, The Village Voice, June 27, 1993.
Raynor, Vivian. Two Women Take Crafts to a Higher Plane, The New York Times, June 27, 1980.
Schaffner, Ingrid. Maureen Connor, Artforum, March 1995.
Schwendener, Martha. Maureen Connor, 'Love (at first) Site', Time Out, Feb.5-12, 1998
Schwirtz, Mira. Review, Flash Art, May/June 1998
Senie, Harriet. Fabric Into Art, ARTnews, September 1980.
Silverthorne, Jeanne. Review, Artforum, October 1980.
Smith, Roberta. Review. The New York Times, July 19, 1991.
Spector, Buzz. A Profusion of Substance, Artforum, October 1989.
Stein, Judith. The Artists' New Clothes, Portfolio, January 1992.
Stephens, Suzanne. Art and Architecture, Progressive Architecture, September 1980.
Tiscornia, Ana. Maureen Connor: Between the Self and the Mercenary, AtlAntica, Fall 1995.
Thole, Eva, Maureen Connor: Thinner Than You, Texte zur Kunst, June, 1997
Tully, Judd. The Multicultural Biennial, Art & Auction, March 1993.
Valdez, Sarah. Rules of the Game: Maureen Connor Makes Socially Conscious Art With a Twist,
Time Out New York, January 18-25, 2001
Zimmer, William. Art Pick: Maureen Connor, The SoHo News, July 9, 1980.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Museum fur Angewandekunst, Vienna, Auatria (commission)
Kunstraum, Munich, Germany (commission)
The Avon Corporation, New York, NY
Zentrum Fur Kunst Und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1990 - Present
Queens College, CUNY: Professor of Sculpture

1995-96
Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, München, GERMANY: Visiting Artist

1990
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Visiting Critic, Fine Arts Department

1989
Bard College: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, MFA Program: Sculptor

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN: Visiting Artist

1988
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: Visiting Sculptor

1987
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: Visiting Sculptor

1985
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Visiting Sculptor

1981-90
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY: Instructor in Art History, Sculpture, Drawing

1980-81
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, New York, NY: Lecturer in the History of Clothing

LECTURES

2008
School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2007
Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art

Women and Museums, Panel discussion, College Art Association, New York

2006
Before and After Institutional Critique, Panel discussion, College Art Association, Boston, MA

2005
Lecture and Workshop series in Central Asia sponsored by Artslink

2004
Bryn Mawr College for the exhibition Picturing Women

2002
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Symposium for New Hotels for Global Nomads

2001
University of Connecticut, Storrs,CT; Symposium: Exhibiting the Museum

Harvestworks Artist in Residence Program, New York, NY

2000
Queens Museum of Art, Corona Park, New York

1999
Sculpture Center, New York, NY; Panel Discussion

1998
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Vermont MFA Program of Norwich College, Vermont

1997
Insitute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany

1996
Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich, Germany

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

Bennington College, Bennington, VT

St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

Sculpture Center, NYC: Panelist - Modeling Categorical

1995
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Museo de Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, SPAIN

New York University, New York, NY

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: Independent Study Program

1994
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1993
Exit Art, New York, NY: Panelist - Libido

Inside the Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art

1991
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

1989
Lafayette College, Lafayette, PA

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN

1988
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1987
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1986
Queens College, CUNY

Museum Santa Maria di Castello, Genoa, ITALY

1984
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1983
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute, New York, NY

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

1982
Colby College, Waterville, ME

1981
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

College Art Association, SanFrancisco, CA: An Interpretation of 'Systeme de la Mode,' by Roland Barthes.

1980
School of Visual Art, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1979
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1976
The Architectural League of NY: Lecture - Art and Architecture: A Collaboration.